Hillary Clinton Cites Racial Inequities in First Ferguson Comments

Hillary Clinton, in her first public comments on a police officer’s shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., said that policing must be rooted in “trust” and “professionalism” rather than “fear,” and that African-Americans face “inequities” in the nation’s judicial system that whites would never tolerate.

As a likely Democratic presidential candidate, Mrs. Clinton was under growing pressure to address the rioting that engulfed the St. Louis suburb after Michael Brown’s death nearly three weeks ago.